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—> “Few theatres in Southern California engage with global socio-political urgencies as relentlessly or uncompromisingly as City Garage. With their West Coast premiere of Natalka Vorozhbyt’s Green Corridors, artistic director Frédérique Michel brings a devastating and timely piece of Ukrainian drama to Santa Monica. Translated with razor-sharp precision and vibrant, darkly humorous immediacy by John Freedman with Nataliia Bratus, the script preserves the full and harrowing trauma of displacement during wartime without losing its biting absurdity. It offers an urgently vital text and is an inspired programming choice for City Garage. Michel’s staging is characteristically dynamic, highly kinetic and visually stylized….[Angela] Beyer is commanding and powerful, possessing a rare fluid command of the playing style and seamlessly navigating its extreme demands while maintaining an undeniable core of emotional truth….[Cruz] St. James, making a welcome return after his City Garage debut in Charles Mee’s Limonade Tous les Jours only a few months ago, turns in another exceptionally strong performance….an exceptionally important story to tell and a production that demands to be seen.”
Travis Michael Holder, TicketHolders LA
www.TicketHoldersLA.com/current-reviews/
“Green Corridors is a tale of resilience and resistance, yet shows a faint glimmer of hope and progress. This is a production which is well worth a look.”
Rich Borowry, AccessiblyLiveOffLine “I was once again impressed by director Frédérique Michel’s visually striking staging and by City Garage’s embrace of absurdist (and more specifically European) theater that would otherwise go unseen by L.A audiences. Indeed, any City Garage regular can tell from the play’s stunningly staged opening sequence, one that has our four female protagonists trudging towards the Ukraine/Poland border, suitcases in hand, a trek that already seems never-ending from the get-go, that Green Corridors is in the hands of a stylistic one-of-a-kinder. The entire cast of City Garage vets (like the always remarkable Beyer) and newbies commit entirely to Michel’s vision and to the roles they play.”
–Steven Stanley
https://stagescenela.com/2026/08/green-corridors/
“Green Corridors is a smart play that remains cognizant of itself….Like all good documentary theater, this is not a comfortable “sit back and relax” production, but rather, a play that leaves you feeling uneasy and rattled.”
“As bleak as the subject matter is, there are moments of humor that emerge….Director Frederique Michel does draw solid, convincing performances from the cast.”
Lovell Estell III, Stage Raw
https://stageraw.com/stage-raw-review-green-corridors/
